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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 879 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Go round the circle): Order: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple, red-purple. Primary: red, yellow, blue. Secondary: orange, green, purple. Tertiary: the six two-word colours. Neighbours on the wheel are called analogous colours; black, white, grey and brown are neutrals and are not on the wheel.

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  1. 1.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  3. 3.True or false: yellow-orange is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow (b) green (c) red-orange (d) red
  5. 5.True or false: blue-green is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) orange (c) blue (d) green
  8. 8.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) neutral colours (b) primary colours (c) complementary colours (d) analogous colours
  10. 10.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue sits between red-purple and red-orange. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) purple (b) green (c) red (d) orange
  12. 12.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) purple (b) red (c) blue-green (d) blue
  13. 13.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between orange and yellow. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) purple (c) red (d) orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, red-orange sits between red and orange. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue (d) purple
  17. 17.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, yellow sits between blue-green and blue-purple. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  20. 20.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) orange (d) green
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue-purple and red-purple? (a) yellow-green (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) red-purple
  22. 22.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) yellow-green (b) green (c) red-orange (d) red
  24. 24.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  25. 25.True or false: red-orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) blue-purple (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  27. 27.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) black and white (d) a primary + a secondary
  28. 28.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, green sits between yellow-green and blue-green. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: yellow-orange is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) purple (b) yellow-orange (c) orange (d) yellow
  31. 31.True or false: blue is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) blue (c) green (d) blue-purple
  33. 33.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) purple (b) red-orange (c) yellow (d) yellow-green
  34. 34.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  35. 35.🎡 How many tertiary colours are there on a 12-part colour wheel?
  36. 36.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) green (c) orange (d) blue-purple
  37. 37.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) yellow-orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  38. 38.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) yellow (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  39. 39.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  40. 40.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour

Answer key

  1. 6
  2. primary colour
  3. True
  4. red-orange
  5. False
  6. 12
  7. orange
  8. True
  9. analogous colours
  10. False
  11. green
  12. blue-green
  13. False
  14. red
  15. True
  16. purple
  17. False
  18. False
  19. tertiary colour
  20. red-orange
  21. purple
  22. True
  23. red
  24. tertiary colour
  25. False
  26. blue
  27. a primary + a secondary
  28. True
  29. False
  30. yellow
  31. False
  32. blue
  33. red-orange
  34. tertiary colour
  35. 6
  36. blue-purple
  37. yellow-orange
  38. red-purple
  39. secondary colour
  40. tertiary colour

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